i think that there was a real sense that they had a dialogue. i think the iranians need sanctions relief. in order to and this is going to happen next. this was breaking the ice. and we start to talk about how we have broken the ice. more than chitchat. they ve already confirmed that kerry and ashton sorry, zarif and ashton are going to be at that meeting. the u.n. foreign minister. and then kerry was asked if he s going to be, he said, we ll see. i imagine that he s going to go to this. that s going to be the next step. so we have today, for the first time in 34 years, some actual top-level, face-to-face diplomacy before these two nations that have not been talking to each other. that s a big deal. that s a huge deal. will be on the front page tomorrow morning. nbc news contributor you got it first, nbc news contributor, hooman majd, and ann curry, great thank you to both of you. we ll be right back with click three. n! i formation!
saying he did not use the words reprehensible. and its new leader is already tweeting quite a bit. for instance, instead of nuclear weapons, #nuclearweapons, invest in development in eradicating poverty, ignorance and diseases. joining me now, ann curry, and hooman majd. also author of an upcoming book, the ministry of guidance invites you not to stay. today was a huge day in u.s./iranian relations, i think it s fair to say. huge. the biggest in decades, would you say? for the first time in 34 years that the highest ranking meeting happened. and it happened and it was a significant meeting. this is the meeting, of course, that included the secretary of state, as we just saw, and also the foreign minister of iran. in 34 years, we ve not seen that kind of level of engagement and they talked about nuclear weapons and they talked about the possibility of having a conversation about nuclear
for instance, instead of nuclear weapons, #nuclearweapons, invest in development in eradicating poverty, ignoranty. joining me now, ann curry, and hooman majd. today was a huge day in u.s./iranian relations, i think it s fair to say. huge. the biggest in decades, would you say? for the first time in 34 years that the highest ranking meeting happened. and it happened and it was a significant meeting. this is the meeting, of course, that included the secretary of state, as we just saw, and also the foreign minister of iran. in 34 years, we ve not seen that kind of level of engagement and they talked about nuclear weapons and they talked about the possibility of having a conversation about nuclear weapon, and in fact, they set their next meeting, just three weeks hence, on october 15th and 16th. and they ve said that they re
wait until when? those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before iran don t have a moral right to place a red light before israel. as the new york times reported yesterday, obama personally rebuffed netanyahu s call for a red line with a phone call with the israeli premiere on tuesday. in an interview on thursday with abc, romney criticized obama s iran policy but admitted that as president his red line would be the same as president obama s. my red line is iran may not have a nuclear weapon. it is inappropriate for them to have the capacity to terrorize the world. but your red line going forward is the same? yes. joining us now is hooman majd. welcome, hooman. i want to bring in daniel levy, a senior research fellow at the
iran and israel and iran and the west and iran particularly and the united states. the iranians are responsible for killing a lot of americans in iraq and now unfortunately, afghanistan. making common cause i might add with their ideological or at least theological enemies in the taliban at times to just kill american soldiers. so that s not proven, but it s not proven. i ll take the word of four-star generals over you, no offense. okay, well my point is there is a low-level shadow war that is going onúbltween iran and the west. it s gone on for some time. you could argue since even though there s an algiers accord in the early 1980s, since the hostage-taking crisis. the question is, will it become a hot war. but there is a war. dimi radar. israeli journalist and co-founder of 972 magazine. . and thanks to hooman majd. and the crisis of zionism, peter